Real Madrid's Luca Modric was awarded the UEFA's best midfielder of the season while Sergio Ramos was awarded the UEFA's best Defender of the season. Juventus's Gianluigi Buffon was awarded as the UEFA's best Goalkeeper of the season.

Each of Ronaldo's honours as the best player in Europe followed Real Madrid winning the Champions League. The Madrid and Portugal star is strongly favoured to get a fifth FIFA world player prize in October.

The UEFA vote by journalists from 55 member federations was announced on Thursday at the Champions League group-stage draw.

UEFA created a European prize after the original Ballon d'Or merged with FIFA's world award.

The women's award was won by Lieke Martens of the European champion Netherlands. The other nominees were Pernille Harder of Denmark and Dzsenifer Marozsan of Germany.